Wikimania is looking for speakers, workshop/tutorial proposals, and suggestions for discussion panels. If you don't want to speak yourself, but there is someone you would really like to see speak or present at Wikimania, you can suggest this as well. Send abstracts or suggestions to : cfp@wikimedia.org
Please distribute the call for papers widely : http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers
On a separate note, SurfWax, a metasearchenging, released a Wikipedia-index tool this week with some cute autocompletion features: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikiwax_released
Are there arrangements where a presentation can be given without being present, ie in the form of a brochure or other handout, or submitting a presentation for somebody else to give (I think the former options are more realistic)?
Obviously, not everybody who would possibly be interested in presentation can afford the costs of travel to Frankfurt am Main (from, say, Saarbrucken, that would be relatively cheap, but from Hong Kong that would be expensive), or they may have a prior engagement.
Mark
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:50:01 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimania is looking for speakers, workshop/tutorial proposals, and suggestions for discussion panels. If you don't want to speak yourself, but there is someone you would really like to see speak or present at Wikimania, you can suggest this as well. Send abstracts or suggestions to : cfp@wikimedia.org
Please distribute the call for papers widely : http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers
On a separate note, SurfWax, a metasearchenging, released a Wikipedia-index tool this week with some cute autocompletion features: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikiwax_released
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:38:48 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Are there arrangements where a presentation can be given without being present, ie in the form of a brochure or other handout, or submitting a presentation for somebody else to give (I think the former options are more realistic)?
Yes. We're going to have posters up. Usually the person presenting the poster would be available to talk about it at a specific time, but I don't see why we couldn't also allow presenterless posters to be up as well. Perhaps they could be discussed on IRC rather than live?
There will be a package of stuff given to attendees, including the schedule, maps, and details on the sponsors. This could also include presentations etc from people not able to be present, as long as the printing costs aren't too prohibitive. A paid-for print on demand solution would be an alternative if we got too many of these.
Angela.
I have been asking some potential paper-authors, who often write about wikis and collaborative environments but are popular and usually busy, whether they would be willing to submit papers for publication and public discussion. It wouldn't be a very official-sounding publication cite, but then it's a rather new field. It might be nice to produce a proper proceedings for libraries that are interested, which would be incentive to submit papers. What do you think?
SJ
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:26:06 +0100, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:38:48 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Are there arrangements where a presentation can be given without being present, ie in the form of a brochure or other handout, or submitting a presentation for somebody else to give (I think the former options are more realistic)?
Yes. We're going to have posters up. Usually the person presenting the poster would be available to talk about it at a specific time, but I don't see why we couldn't also allow presenterless posters to be up as well. Perhaps they could be discussed on IRC rather than live?
There will be a package of stuff given to attendees, including the schedule, maps, and details on the sponsors. This could also include presentations etc from people not able to be present, as long as the printing costs aren't too prohibitive. A paid-for print on demand solution would be an alternative if we got too many of these.
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Just an opinion Angela.
While it is a good idea to try to redirect people asking questions to irc meetings, one would also realise that not everyone is available for these irc meetings.
Most of the discussions about wikimania are done essentially privately (semi privacy), on a specific irc channel, at specific times, on specific wiki, with specific mailing list.
The result of it is that it is essentially organised by a small group of people, who (it seems to me) regret a bit that there are no more people to help.
I think that in communication, it is important to maintain a link with mainstream channels of discussion, and welcome off-site chat on wikimania, so that people staying in the main stream channel are made aware of wikimania and the work around it. If they read something which raise their attention, they are more likely to follow you in the semi private areas. While if each time they try to raise the discussion in the main stream channel of communication, one tell them to keep these question for the semi-private area.... chance is that they NEVER go to the semi-private areas.
This is true for wikimania.
This is true for any work on grants which is conveniently secured on a closed wiki.
This could be true to a certain extent for local association work, if you keep it entirely off wiki.
And so on.
Just my opinion.
Multiplication of discussion place is cleaner, but less productive sometimes. Imho.
PS: never being available at irc times for wikimania discussions, I do not participate to its organisation, but for reminding people from time to time it exists.
Angela a écrit:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:38:48 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Are there arrangements where a presentation can be given without being present, ie in the form of a brochure or other handout, or submitting a presentation for somebody else to give (I think the former options are more realistic)?
Yes. We're going to have posters up. Usually the person presenting the poster would be available to talk about it at a specific time, but I don't see why we couldn't also allow presenterless posters to be up as well. Perhaps they could be discussed on IRC rather than live?
There will be a package of stuff given to attendees, including the schedule, maps, and details on the sponsors. This could also include presentations etc from people not able to be present, as long as the printing costs aren't too prohibitive. A paid-for print on demand solution would be an alternative if we got too many of these.
Angela.
Angela wrote:
We're going to have posters up. Usually the person presenting the poster would be available to talk about it at a specific time, but I don't see why we couldn't also allow presenterless posters to be up as well. Perhaps they could be discussed on IRC rather than live?
Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
While it is a good idea to try to redirect people asking questions to irc meetings, one would also realise that not everyone is available for these irc meetings. Most of the discussions about wikimania are done essentially privately (semi privacy), on a specific irc channel, at specific times, on specific wiki, with specific mailing list.....
I wasn't talking about Wikimania meetings. I was talking about how posters could be discussed if the creator of a poster was not present at Wikimania. This is about how people not attending the conference could be involved *during* the conference, not about the organsiation of the conference before it happens.
Angela.
Angela a écrit:
Angela wrote:
We're going to have posters up. Usually the person presenting the poster would be available to talk about it at a specific time, but I don't see why we couldn't also allow presenterless posters to be up as well. Perhaps they could be discussed on IRC rather than live?
Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
While it is a good idea to try to redirect people asking questions to irc meetings, one would also realise that not everyone is available for these irc meetings. Most of the discussions about wikimania are done essentially privately (semi privacy), on a specific irc channel, at specific times, on specific wiki, with specific mailing list.....
I wasn't talking about Wikimania meetings. I was talking about how posters could be discussed if the creator of a poster was not present at Wikimania. This is about how people not attending the conference could be involved *during* the conference, not about the organsiation of the conference before it happens.
Angela.
Hmmm, ah, okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Ant
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